Author:William Falconer (1732-1769)

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William Falconer
(1732–1769)

William Falconer

Works

Poetry

• The Shipwreck (1762)

Individual poems

• "The Smiling Plains"
• "Ode on the Duke of York's second Departure from England"

Prose

• An account of the epidemic catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza, as it appeared at Bath, in the months of May and June, 1782, (1782) short work (external scan)
• An Essay on the Plague, 1801 (external scan)

Works about Falconer

• "Falconer, William," in A biographical dictionary of eminent Scotsmen (v. vol. 3, pp. 254−258), (ed.) by Thomas Thomson, Glasgow: Blackie and Son (1857, 2nd edition) in 9 vols.
• "Falconer, William," in Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, (ed.) by John Francis Waller and John Eadie, Glasgow: W. Mackenzie (1876)
• "Falconer, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 9) (1879)
• "Falconer, William," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Falconer, William (1732-1769)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Falconer, William," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Falconer, William," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Falconer, William," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Falconer, William," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)